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Originally Posted by scary_dream
Thank you for mentioning that! Whenever I saw GWH and Wilt with two arms and two eyes, I thought SOMETHING about him was very different, and it wasn't the arm or the eye. I'm glad you mentioned it was that he looked considerably younger, because it was going to drive me crazy.
To me, in GWH flashbacks, he looked... I don't know, bubblier? As in, his lines were more curvy and his facial shape was fuller and just, for lack of a better word, "bubblier".
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He looked a lot more confident and carefree, and just plain HAPPIER. I realize now that a lot of Wilt's "happiness" has been forced; it's been a front, probably to avoid bringing others around him down. Wilt has often done a very good job of pretending to be completely happy so he doesn't worry or bother anyone else or make them feel bad. In the flashbacks, his feelings are real. He just has that "top of the world" look about that you'd expect from someone who is young and feels like they've got it all, before they've had a chance to experience real heartache and set-back after set-back, and found out that the world out there isn't always a very nice place. I guess that some of Wilt's world-weariness, for lack of a better term, can also be attributed to him having been created to be more like a surrogate adult in the first place, whereas a lot of Imaginary Friends are more like perpetually young children, in terms of their emotions and thoughts. Most young kids don't really spend a lot of time thinking about the more unpleasant aspects of existance, like paying bills, wars, energy crises, crime, environmental issues, and such, because THEY are pretty much the center of their own universe, but as they get older, they become more and more aware of things going on around them and in the world at large, and how some of these things can have a pretty negative effect on everyone. Adults just plain worry more, because most of them can see "the big picture". Since Wilt is more like an adult, he's surely aware of some of the awful things that go on day to day, in various parts of the globe, and while he doesn't go on and on about them, due to his tendency to internalize emotions, that awareness is surely adding to to his countenance.
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